Sentence examples similar to motley background from inspiring English sources
Here, curators had motley backgrounds: the Swiss Harald Szeemann was a theatre director; Americans Walter Hopps and Seth Siegelaub were a jazz booker and a plumber respectively.
But it is the working together at less-than-all-consuming tasks that seems to be forging our motley crew (far flung in age and background) into something that feels like a community.
A Cockney foreman bosses around a motley group of migrant workers, mocking their backgrounds and their abilities.
Now the motley crew occupies the high ground.
"I don't know the background there," Buchla concludes his commentary on Kesey's motley crew.
Enter a motley collection of half-a-dozen sharers who set up home against background noise caused by the passing-of-the-old-guard death of Winston Churchill.
The spectre of an embarrassing political protest, for example, excites the "arrogant and suspicious" Safwat Shakir, a sleazy government agent with a military background and one of the least likeable actors in Al Aswany's motley troupe.
Against the background of Thatcher's Britain, one scruffy, fading rock star - Bob Geldof - recalls how he and his motley band of pop idols, rock and roll Del Boys and unpaid do-gooders tried to pull off the impossible - a global televised concert, never before attempted, to save the lives of the starving millions in Africa and force the Establishment to sit up and take the problem seriously.
There's a classic motley crew of eccentric side characters, including a twitchy clairvoyant of many talents, the only one to eventually emerge from the background.
There's a motley assortment of villains (notably the feline Roger Yuan and the donkeyish Walton Goggins) and some vague love interests lurking in the background -- the Indian bride and the fairy tale princess, who both seem like pretty good sports.
